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Hormone Blocker Sticker Shock — Again — As Patients Lose Cheaper Drug OptionThere are two nearly identical drugs made by Endo Pharmaceuticals, both containing 50 milligrams of the hormone blocker histrelin. One...
Revenue Cycle
Hospital Financial Assistance Transactions Up for the Third Year RunningTransUnion Healthcare has processed an increasing number of financial assistance transactions every year since it began tracking that data.
Revenue Cycle
Former HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan on Why Hospitals Should Comply with Price Transparency"It's the people that recognize the shape of things to come and help participate in it ? who will have...
Payer
How Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost EmergencyA quick exam to evaluate labor in a small triage room can generate substantial charges.
Payer
A COVID Test Costing More Than a Tesla? It Happened in Texas.A Texas couple each had a COVID diagnostic PCR test at SignatureCare Emergency Center and were charged $56,384 owns across...
Revenue Cycle
Hospital Price Transparency Needs Harsher Penalties, Uniform Data ReportingAccording to an expert panel, CMS should increase the maximum penalty for noncompliance with the pricing rule from $300 per...
Payer
Jaw Surgery Takes a $27K Bite out of One Man's BudgetAbout three months after the surgery, Ely Bair was shocked to get the large hospital bill ? about $24,000 higher...
Payer
Hospital 'Trauma Centers' Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People HomeTens of thousands of times a year, hospitals charge enormously expensive trauma alert fees for injuries so minor the patient...
Marketing
Doctors Weigh Pros and Cons of Prescribing Hot-Button Alzheimer's DrugFaced with criticism over insufficient guidance, the FDA has revised the drug's label to narrow its potential use.
Marketing
Drugmakers' Spending on Stock, Dividends and Executive Pay Exceeds Research, Democrats SayContrary to pharmaceutical industry arguments that large profits fund extensive research, the major drug companies plow more of their billions...
Payer
Effort to Decipher Hospital Prices Yields Key Finding: Don't Try It at HomeA series of columns by Bernard J. Wolfson addresses the challenges consumers face in California's healthcare landscape.
Covid-19
Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play OnThe CDC says Colorado is among the states with the highest proportion of the highly contagious delta variant.